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Tom Ford was a shy 25-year-old when he met magazine editor Richard Buckley. It took him the length of an elevator ride to decide he wanted to marry him.

Tom Ford takes to the cover of Out’s February issue, enjoying an intimate kiss with his longtime partner, Richard Buckley. The portrait kicks off an issue dedicated to love, in which a series of striking photographs and stories celebrate gay couples and families, including artist Julie Mehretu and Jessica Rankin, Grizzly Bear musician Ed Droste and Chad McPhail, photographer Catherine Opie and her family of five, and supermodel Tasha Tilberg and Laura Wilson.

In an accompanying first-person story, Ford recalls riding on an elevator with Buckley in 1986, 10 days after first spotting him at a fashion show. “I decided in that elevator ride that I was going to marry him. He ticked every box, and—boom—by the time we got to the floor, I was like, sold. He seemed so together. He was so handsome, he was so connected, he was so grown-up, so he was very intimidating. And he really chased me—not that he had to chase that hard.”

In the same piece Ford also recalls how AIDS overshadowed their burgeoning relationship. “One of the very first people to be diagnosed with what was then called gay cancer, in 1981, was a friend of mine. It completely flipped me out, and from then on, I was extremely safe. It probably saved my life, but it damaged the way I think about sex forever. You just associated sex with death—or at least, I did. If I made a list, I would say that half of our friends from the early ’80s are no longer with us.”

Check out this new clip for Tom Ford's 'A Single Man' featuring Colin Firth the smoking hot (literally) Jon Kortajarena. Jon had a short part in the film but never-the-less did a superb job at playing 'Carlos' - the hustler. Again, if you haven't seen this film...DO!

Photographs of the cast of A Single Man by film director/fashion designer Tom Ford appear in the January issue of V Magazine. The stills featuring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode and Nichols Hoult were taken on set in December 2008, and show the cast in character as adapted from Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel.

I caught a screening earlier in the week and was totally blown away by the film (CLICK HERE for a synopsis). The storyline wraps itself around one of my greatest fears (yes, I'll admit it), isolation...the fear of being alone, and the search for meaning after a great loss. Sad and tragic, yes. But thought provoking as well - with tinges of joy.

Set in LA in the early 60's, a time when being gay was socially unacceptable, the film touches on discrimination...first, when Firth's character (George Falconer, a college professor) lectures his students about the fears society (or the majority) has of the minority, and again when Moore's character (Charley, an alcoholic divorcee) tells George that his 16-year relationship with his partner Jim (Matthew Goode) was not a "real relationship."

The production design was fantastic, the idealized cinematography was stunning, and the gorgeous cast did an amazing job. This film transcends gay audiences and touches down on emotions we all feel, no matter one's orientation.

A Single Man opens this Friday in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco; nationwide December 25.

Director Tom Ford, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult attend a screening of the film at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. [PHOTO CREDIT: stephen lovekin/getty images entertainment]

Tom Ford’s A Single Man trailer might have been “de-gayed,” but his interview with The Advocate certainly wasn’t. Now Ford is dishing with The Advocate about his film and his early life experience, both professionally and personally. He shares everything from working with Yves Saint Laurent to his first gay sexual experience after a night at Studio 54!

“I never knew I liked men sexually until Ian came into my life. And he wasn’t just my first male kiss. The first blow job I ever gave anyone was the one I gave to Ian in the back of a cab on the way home from a night at Studio 54 as we made our way down to where he lived on Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue. Of course, it was a Checker cab.”

“But being at Yves Saint Laurent was such a negative experience for me even though the business boomed while I was there. Yves and his partner, Pierre Bergé, were so difficult and so evil and made my life such misery…I’ve never talked about this on the record before, but it was an awful time for me. Pierre and Yves were just evil. So Yves Saint Laurent doesn’t exist for me.”

Here is the just-released artwork for A Single Man, the new drama directed by Tom Ford.

Written and directed by Tom Ford, and based on the Christopher Isherwood novel, A Single Man (The Weinstein Company) stars Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, the extraordinarily striking-lookingNicholas Hoult and Matthew Goode.

A Single Man is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life.

The movie opens in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco on December 11th, expanding wider on December 25th.

In case you missed it:'Handsome Devil' Nicholas Hoult takes the cover of OUT Magazine's November 2009 issue. The 19-year-old extraordinarily striking-looking actor is set to star alongside (and strip for) Colin Firth in Tom Ford's directorial debut 'A Single Man'...CONT'D.